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From: 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
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Subject: Re: AT&T Advertisement is Stupid
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Date: 8 Jan 90 18:42:58 GMT
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In article <2632@accuvax.nwu.edu> ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org (David Dodell) 
writes:

|I'm sure other members of the conference have seen the recent AT&T ad
|showing some guy at a telephone both trying to call Phoenix but
|getting Fuji instead.
|I figure that this ad is just plain stupid, since if someone can't
|dial a number correctly, it has nothing to do with the carrier they
|are using.  The ad implies otherwise.

Not that I want to stick up for AT&T's advertising department, but when
I first saw the ad, I thought the point was that having called Fiji
instead of Phoenix, he had to call the billing department of whatever
long-distance company he was using, while an AT&T operator would give
him instant credit.


Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP